edit: one small problem after playing few hours and rebooting few times: sometimes grub4dos does not see the frugal install on the SDcard. Must be a timing issue. It gives "file not found" at the "find --set root ........sfs" line. Must be that the card filesystem is not read by the bios or by grub4dos at the moment the "find" is executed. Played with timing a bit, but that does not resolve the issue. This may be a known issue, but I fear I am unique in that I have grub4dos installed in a harddisk system and try to boot from an SD card through grub4dos's menu.lst.

You can set the actual pdev1 parameter on your kernel line, this may solve your issue.
For example, if you have a save on sdd1 you'd add this to your kernel line:

I am really very sorry to fail you, but I have been unable to do a single worthwhile test on 5.2.3.7 and after almost four hours I've given up.

The problems are with my equipment. Despite recent problems with both my ancient internal hard drives I have eventually decided that my current problem is in burning an error free CD-R or DVD+RW (even though the MD5 checks).

From my point of view my/your 5.3.1 DVD boot and USB stick are still working perfectly; it's very fast on my old desktop, ideally stable and a total saviour.

I've been using my 4gb flash drive install on several computers, 3
with nvidia graphics and my laptop with ati graphics.
The computers with nvidia graphics just needed to rerun xorgwizard and
choose the nvidia driver and the correct resolution (the proprietary
nvidia driver was installed on pc1), also run the network wizard.
On my laptop it booted straight to the desktop and was using the vesa
driver, I downloaded the amd-driver-installer-12-2-x86.x86_64.run and
installed it.I had to run the network wizard to setup the wireless
connection.
It's working very well, amazing what you can get on a 4 gb flash
drive, 2 gb save file and the rest to store sfs files etc.

sometimes grub4dos does not see the frugal install on the SDcard. Must be a timing issue. It gives "file not found" at the "find --set root ........sfs" line.

The grub4dos have seen the menu.lst and then do the "find --set root".
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menu.lst is on sda1. I think that is where grub4dos default puts it (logical choice, since if you remove the SD card, the system can still boot).
The problem is that after I make the selection in the blue screen (so menu.lst is found) I get this error (command line, not a popup).

The problem does not happen when I boot winXP or Lubuntu from the harddrive, so it must have something to do with the card/usb.
The problem is a bit intermittent. Yesterday evening I had 4 or 5 times perfect booting, and the 6'th time I had the problem.

Do you think it may be card related (faster SD card ?), this card is type 6. I may have some "type 10" card laying around, and give that a try later.

edit: one small problem after playing few hours and rebooting few times: sometimes grub4dos does not see the frugal install on the SDcard. Must be a timing issue. It gives "file not found" at the "find --set root ........sfs" line. Must be that the card filesystem is not read by the bios or by grub4dos at the moment the "find" is executed. Played with timing a bit, but that does not resolve the issue. This may be a known issue, but I fear I am unique in that I have grub4dos installed in a harddisk system and try to boot from an SD card through grub4dos's menu.lst.

You can set the actual pdev1 parameter on your kernel line, this may solve your issue.
For example, if you have a save on sdd1 you'd add this to your kernel line:

Code:

pdev1=sdd1

HTH

Thank you, that fixed it (I had 10+ succesfull boots). Of coarse I used pdev1=sdb1.

I see that 01micko has already made Iron and Chrome 17 packages. By default they Won't Run as Root. Iguleder made a patch. Alternatively it is possible to run them in root by specifying the --user-data-dir as in this command:

Chromium is the open source development platform so it runs ahead of the other 2. Google Chrome has its own flashplayer built in. Iron removes some of the privacy-compromising features of Google Chrome.

This distro and the packages installed runs very well on this platform. My steps were as follows to get a full-featured LAN PC
ISO to multi-session CDRW
Installed all the following packages outside of the PPM
SAMBA
JRE
AngryIP
Did a save session with the above 3
Rebooted and installed LibreOffice
Verified all subsystems functioning as expected including shares and share access.
Exercised a Remaster operation to capture all packages into a single ISO
Wiped the CDRW and burned the Remaster single ISO to the CDRW

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3 Different Puppy Search Enginesor use DogPile

Added an "Are you sure" Xdialog to the deletion of current launchers in the panel for JWM

Ok... I got jealous...
So I hacked it a bit to make it control a JWM applications panel. Good for small screens
The attached pet will also generate the (auto-hidden) applications panel on the top of the screen.
It also has a menu entry under "Desktop"

Updatev0.2 prompts for Desksetup if present

Update 2 v0.3 allows positioning of the applications panel in any side.
The pet is a bit bigger because it includes the mini icons so it can be used in any puppy

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